I’m an aspiring writer, at least, I try buying books on how to write things. Amazon might want to get some freebie for me when they shipped 57th book on writing last month.
Have you thought of writing about yourself ? Every writing book starts something similar to this.
But, I hate defining myself. Well, to write better, there ain’t no bail-out plan.
To begin with, here are some clues to my character. It seems only fair that if you’re going to read what I write, I ought to tell you how I stand: I prefer sitting but when I stand, I stand in size 8 EEE shoes. There have been periods in my life when wide feet were my most distinguishing characteristic.
When it comes to politics, I don’t know whether I’m a Democratic or a Communist [not limited to Bangladeshi viewpoint]. When I was young I was under the mistaken impression that all Democratic party were Muslims and all Communist were Atheist. This turns out to be untrue, of course, and I’ve never decided which I am. Those of us who don’t have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading “Confused.”
This morning the scale balanced at 165 pounds. l’m 5′8″. My mother always called me “sturdy” and said I have big bones. A little thin is what I am.
I have been accused for forgetting things.
I speak English, but Englishmen always pretend they don’t understand what I’m saying.
Defining Me and it is my opinion that prejudice saves us all a great deal of time. I have a great many well founded prejudices, and I have no intention of giving up any of them except for very good reasons. I don’t like alcohols and I don’t like smoking either. Call it prejudice if you wish, but I have no intention of ever trying either again just to make sure I don’t like them. I am sure.
Good ideas are overrated. It makes more difference how a writer handles an idea than what the idea was in the first place. The world is filled with people with good ideas and very short of people who can even rake a leaf. I’m tired of good ideas.
When I write, I use a fountain pen made in 1990, on papers. My office gave me a vaio laptop, but there’s no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An laptop is ready to go before I have anything to say.
Writers don’t often say anything that readers don’t already know, unless it’s a news story. A writer’s greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
There’s nothing mystical or magic about being a writer. A writer is just a person who writes something. There are almost no people who are not dentists who can fix teeth, but there are a lot of people who aren’t professional writers who write very well. This is one of the reasons why being a writer is tougher than being a dentist.
I admire people who don’t care what anyone else thinks about what they do, but I’m not one of them. I care what people think and would not want you to know how much I hope you like what I write.
Redemption 